I feel great compassion for anyone suffering from a mental disease, or a mental breakdown or deterioration, because it’s usually not their fault. My father suffered PTSD as a result of his nearly three years of being a Prisoner of War of the Japanese during World War II–his memoir is titled Eaten by the Japanese–and in his final years possibly from Parkinson’s, which I contracted 5 years back, and which Biden most likely has, and which greatly suppresses one’s ability to work and think).
President Biden has finally done the right thing in resigning from the presidential race–but the wrong thing in staying on as President even a day longer. For it’s not right to put the lives of the eight billion human beings at risk, without their knowledge and permission, just because some of us don’t wish to hurt one frail and overblown man’s ego. If he doesn’t resign from the presidency itself and hand over the reins to Vice President Harris, the Cabinet should declare him unfit for office as of this moment. His whole attitude towards the Ukraine War, which has cost at least 800,000 mostly innocent Ukrainian and Russian lives, and his to carte blanche to Netenyahu to kill as many Gazan men, women and children as he fancies, is not the act of a mentally sound and kind man. I feel compassionate for him because of his age, and because of his being forced to make a fool of himself by his wife (Dr.?) Jill Biden, thanks to her and his family’s personal ambitions. It is pathetic elder abuse, and my sympathy for him dictates that I demand this elder abuse should stop right now, allowing him to quit and live in quiet retirement, telling fairy tales about his adventures with Mandela and his uncle being eaten by the cannibals (who should have received the Medal of Honor for doing so).
I speak of the danger of total nuclear war and the end of civilization. How could such a destruction of the planet or at least its human population come about? As Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago has often explained with immense clarity and intellectual confidence (look for him on YouTube), when a Great Power like Russia feels existentially threatened–and it only matters that they think so, not that their fears are realistic and justified–and has its back to the wall, meaning for example they experience a crushing defeat in Ukraine and the breakup of Russia itself, surrounded by NATO and US nuclear missiles ready to fire, they will not hesitate to let loose all their strategic stockpile of nukes towards every country, city, and strategic target that poses a potential threat to them. And then who is left to mourn the madness, the sheer insanity of having sacrificed 800 billion lives to defend a line or a border that is a human creation, often of generals sitting at a map and moving the lines from side to side (as in the Pink Floyd song, “Us and Them”). No matter that the President has a whole cabinet to advise him, there’s no guarantee that they are not as irrational as he is, and the Constitution makes clear that the president has the sole authority to access and let loose the dogs of nuclear war. It’s a risk we simply can’t afford just out of compassion for one 81-year-old who doesn’t know where he is, and what’s going on, and is often just looking for a bed on which to curl up and go to sleep.
Sole Decider? Remember George W. Bush’s 3 million plus death toll as a result of his being the Sole Decider of whether humanity should exist or disappear? Really? Around 70 million Americans, half of whom are less informed about the world and its complexities than many a Kenyan child, get to decide on the lives of 8 billion humans? That’s the democracy you are all giving your lives up for?
P.S. I just came to read this blog post that is far less forgiving of Joe Biden than mine: https://youtu.be/biWOqF6CqLs?si=awOG2ln1D9zUqatJ
One that explodes the lie of 40 beheaded babies, and the innocence of Joe Biden in earlier massacres aided and abetted by him.